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VOL. 11. THE THOM ASTON HERALD, PUBLISHED BY ( , ItV S. Gr. BEARCJE, every SATURDAY MORNING. TERMS. , *2 00 i Month* 1 00 - ' A || payments INVARIABLE' IN ADVANCE • Oct >h«r Ist no name will be put upon the «ub- A i. o „ks unless payment is made in advance ,cr r ’ , , P ,r will he stopped at the expiration of the “ e id for unless subscription is previous renewed, j ll “* 1 i * fiddre-s of a subscriber is to be changed, we Yr,..ve the old address as well as the new one, to pwt n (u |! e received for a less period than three ! !rve<i by Carrier in town without extra charge. , l tten t|on paid to anonymous communications, as - N ”“ re *ponsible for everything entering ottr columns. %vM^sendin r g»s C the names oTtjfre# rtew snbscrib: . : ..Vith *6.00, we will send the llkualb one year ; ‘ An K mark after subscribers name Indicates that the j time of subscription Is out. ADVERTISING KATES. The fmiowing are the rates to which we adhere in ; ill contracts for advertising or where advertisements in without instructions. One", u re ten lines nr less (Nonpariel type). $1 for the first mi .I 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. M Yjl M. | 8 M | 6 M. |l2 M. TVLuv ~ TToO i‘2 50 $ 7 01) *lO 0 sls 00 I ’ ires"" ! 2 01)1 H 0(1 loot) 15 00125 00 . sooj 700,150.1 20 0013000 ' ! ' l " ! 40D 1000! 20 00 30 00 40 00 1/ rltuinri "...j * OO 200 B<> 00 40 00 50 00 ' " ..I 10 00 20 Oil! 35 00 65 001 80 00 ';, nn ".' I 15 00 25 O 040 00 70 00 130 00 pi-played Advertisements will be cnarged according t i the space they occupy. ( \ | advertisements should be marked for a specified ( j, pM n (,i). rwise they will be continued and charged for u .,t 1 ordered out. ' \dverti“enients inserted at intervals to be charged u new each insertion. ' \,|\,.rtlsenien's to rfn for a longer period th n three months ate due ;ind will be collected at the beginning of eaeh quarter. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. ,lob work mast be paid for on delivery. Advertisements discontinued from any cause bes.-re fXpipdi'in of time specified, will be charged only for the time published. i ; i,, ml (Inductions will be made when cash is pai *in " Pro'.-ssinnal cards one square SIO.OO a year. M:iiri;tL'c Notices $1.5(1. Obituaries $1 per square. \ - {res of a personal or private character, intended p|Miri"te any private enterprise or interest, will be irif? d as other advertisements tiivertisei-s are reque-ted to hand in their favors as earl In the wee as |> ssible Iht n ore U ms will he xtrUtly adhered to. legal advertising. hetet ifore, since the war, the following are the | inK ,e for notices ol'Ordioaries, Ac.—to uk paid in ad men: .« ■ Thirty Days’ Notices . ..• $ 5 00 Forty I> ivs’ Notices .. 625 Jibs of bands. Jkc pr. sq|r of tea Lines 600 sixty I**'s’ Notices ... ... 7 00 s : \ 'oaths' Notices .. ... l( 0(1 Ti> I)iv-’ Notices of Sales pr eqr ... 200 'itKiam' Salk* —for these'bales, for every fi fa $1 tm. Mortgage Sales, p> r square. $5 CO “Let asid” a liberal per centage for advertising Xeri you self unceasingly before the public; and it matters not what bus! ess you are engaged in, for, if inte (gently and industriously pur-ued. a fortune will be the iyhu i— Unit s Merchants’ Magazine. “ After I began to n ivertise my Ironware freely, b'l.-intss increased with ornaznig rapidity. For ten v s oast I h ive spent £3t-Uloi> vearlv to keep tny <nperi«r wares hes -re the public Had 1 been timid in advertising. I never should have po-sessed my fortune es £d.i i.ilon”.—McLeod Belton. Birmingham. '■ Advertising like Midas' touch, turns everything to sold H\ it, your daring men draw millions to their coffers ’'—Stuart Cloy '"’hat audacity is to love, and boldness tn war, the skillful use of printer’s i it, is to success in busiuess.’’ — lie chcr. "The newspapers made Fisk.*—J. Fisk, Jr. Witbo it the uid of advertisements I nm and have done nothing in my -p culaiions. I have the most complete lai hin “printers’ ink.” Advei tising is the “royal road to business " Barnum. Professional Cards. DH T R KENDALL offers bis y>r"fpp— sinnal services tc the citizen- of Ihomaston and surrounding country. May be found durin .' the day at 1 D Httrdaway's itore, at night at the former resi de' ce of ('harles Wilson. jan 14 ly F REDDING. Attorney at Law, H • Barnesvil e, Pike co, Ga. Will practice in the ' 'unties comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and n-ewhere by special on tract A1 business promptly Wended to. Olhce in Elder's building, over Chamber’s Dn Store. aug6- y r P!IOMAS BP, ALL. Attorney at Law. I Ihomaston, Ga. Will practice in the Flint Cir l'iit and elsewhere by special contract aug27-ly \\ T. WEAVER. Attornpy at Law. , ' • Thomaston, Ga. Will practice in all the 1 urtsof the Flint Circuit, and elsewhere by special ““huct. iune2s-ly TWIN L MALL, Attorney and Counsellor ''f I jfUV Will practice in the counties composing ‘■•'■e Flint Circuit. In the Supreme Court of (.eoreia, * ■ tn the District Court of the United States for the • Them and Southern Districts of Georgia. ‘honiaston. Ga., June 18th. lS7('-Iy. JOSEPH H. SMITH. Attorney and !' Counsellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall and e ’ rs sheets Atlanta, Ga. Will practice n 'he Ba '"‘r">r Courts of Coweta and Flint Circuits, the Su 'r,uie Court of the State, and the United States’ Dis inct i omt, All coin unications addressed to him at 1 tntu will receive prompt attention. sprilD-ly ANDERSON & McCALLA. Attorneys ‘ I at Law, Covington, Cenrgia. Will attend regu -1 b and Practice in the Superior Courts of the y U!ll i''s of Newton, Butts, 11* nry, Spalding Pike, ‘"dtoe, Upson, Morgan, DeKalb, Gwinnette and Jas per, ’ 6 declO-ly Tames M. MATHEWS, Attorney at M Lug, Talbotton, Ga.. will practice all the counties ""busing the Chattahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by contract declO-ly \\ ILLIS & WILLIS. Attorneys at Law i ' Tdbotton, (la Prompt attention given to “ ness placed in our hands. declO-ly ROBERT P. TRIPLE. Attorney at Law H Forsyth, Ga. Will practice in the State Courts c lnthe United States' District Court at Atlanta and Hannah, Ga, 0-ly J A HUNT, Attorney at Law, Barnes* ~/ * V,I K (ia Will nractice in all the counties of "nt (ircuit and Supreme Court of tho State. \[ARION BETHUNE, Attorney at rj Faw, Talboton, Ga. Will practice in all the M*,!’ es ,‘*f the Chattahoochee Circuit, and Upson aiul w "’hor counties. |V' HOMERS will continue the practice of Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug declß-ly f) R r i w. T TIaNNAII. is pleased to !, r n^! f y the citizens of Upson that he will continue Thom.,!, ce ot Medicine in its various branches at •“aston. Ga. dec 18-1 y ,[jMES s WALKER. Attorney at Law I "S*- ° a - Will practice in Circuit Courts o tleeioA’ and ‘ n the Uaited states District Courts. |j J PUBLIC.—I have moved up to wid 1’ llie Cheney.and Allen’s re g.rfarly engaged iri the practice of medi i to at any time Persons wishing , 'nan,,! r !n n “Ui n my office, can call on Messrs, i a th, v ou , ew * Ba nd Sawyer’s and obtain informa “tPrumutivt!iUi?o leave any message there, which will 4div «red. iir DR. J. O. HUNT. The systoms of liver IS IMH 0N S ’|-^ P Sn ta »n Si-iff I 5 I xfl IU U il 13 the pai„ i s!n I I tbe shoulder, and h mis . me stomach iHSfdTffl loss or /nMiSn? 11 .’ 1 ?' ness, .owe]* in gimeral costive, ».ometim.-H niV" S « c^" with lax. The head is troubled min heavy sensation considerable l„ ss memnrr and <h,,L pamedl w;th painful sensation of cc.o -m-B<>methingthing which ought to have been rbme Often, * .and low spirit Jomo' I ■ IIIBI 1,111 Z times, some of the above I | in II I cymptom* attend the dis- L I X r! K times 1 1 ii II |vew few of them; but 1 ,he C'ver is generally the Cur^heLi?^^^it^" ,, " 1,, " ° rgaD m 0 8 1 involved. DR. SIMMONS’ Liver Regulator, harmless preparations ever offered to the suffering If i' is sure to cures Dvspe r , s ia. headache |*MIMW»feS?S B. R bladder, crnip dysentery, "ffections of the kidney® rVi r - "T rv ? usft r 8 ' c 4 hn,s . diseases of the -kin. impurity m trie blood, melancholy, or depression of spirits, heart burn, colic, or pains in the bowels, pain in the head fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain m back and limbs asthma erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis! eases generally. Prepared onlv by J. 11. ZEIEiIfV & CO., Price *1: by mail $1.35. Druggists, Macon, Ga. I he following highly respectable persons can fully at test to the virtues of this valuable medicine and to whom wo most respectfully refer: ~ C,en T r .° > lt ’ President 8. W. R. R. Company; R-v J. Felder Perry, Ga.; Col E. K Sparks, Albany Ga.; f.eorge J Lunsford. Esq.. Conductor « W R R- C Masterson, Esq. Sheriff Bibb county; J A. Butts bain bridge, Ga ; Dykes ds Sparhawk, Editors Floridian! Tallahassee; Rev. J W. Burke. Macon, Oa- Virgii Powers Esq Superintendent 8. W. R. R. ; Daniel Bui bud, Bullard s Station. Macon and Brunswick R R Iwiggs county, Ga.; Grenville Wood. Wood’s Factory’ Macon, (ia ; Rev. K F. Kasterlinn, P FI Florida Con fererce; Major A. V. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor Mac n relegrafih. .I"*r sale bv John F Henry, Nexv York, Jnn D. Park Cincinnati, Jno. Flemming,‘New Orleans, and all Dnig ftpl2-ly SIXTY-FIVE FIRST PRIZE MEDALS AWARDED. THE great Southern Piano MANUFACTORY. WM. Ai TST ABB Sc CO., MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PI ANO FORTES, BALTIMORE, MD. HTUIESE Instruments have been beforet.be 1 Public for nearly Thirty Years, and upon their excellence alone attained an unpurchased pre eminence, which pronounces them unequalled. Their TONE . combines great power, sweetness and fine singing quali ty, as well as great purity of Intonation and Sweetness throughout the entire scale. Their TOUCH is pliant and elastic arid entirely free from the stiffness found in so many Pianos. 11ST WORKMANSHIP they are unequalled using none but the very best seas oned material, the large capital employed !n our busi ness enabling us to keep continually au immense stock of lumber, A,<\, on hand. All our Square Pianos have our New Improved Over strung Bcole and the Agraffe Treble. We would call special attention to our late improve ments in GRAND PIANOS AND SQUARE GRANDS, Patented August 14, 1866. which bring the Piano nearer perfection than has .vet been attained. Every Piano fully warranted 5 Years We have made arrangements for the Sole Wholesale Agency for the most celebrated PARLOR ORGANS AND MELODKONS, which we'offer, Wholesale and Retail, at Lowest Factory Prices. WM. KNABE & CO. septl7-6in Baltimore, Md. * “OUR FATHER’S H USE;” or, THE UNWRITTEN WORD. By Daniel March. D. D., Author of the popular “ Night Scenes.” nnnis master in thought and laneruaere I shows us untold riches and beauties in the Great House, with its Blooming flowers. Si ging birds. Waving palms, boiling clouds, Beautiful hows Sacred mountains, Delightful rivers, Mighty oceans. Thunder ing voices, Blazing heavens and vast universe with countlesss beings in millions of worlds, and reads to us in each the Unwritten World, Rose-tinted paper, or nate engravings and superb binding “Rich and varied in thought.” “< haste.” “Easy arid graceful in style.” “Correct, pure and elevating in its tendency.” “Beau tiful and good.” “A household treasure.” Commenda tions like the above from College Presidents and Pro fessor, ministers of all denominations, and Hie re'igious and secular press all over the country. Its freshness, purity of language, with clear, open type, fine steel en gravings, substantial binding, and low price, make it the book tor the masses. Agents are selling from 50 to 150 per week. We want Clergymen, School Teachers, smart young men and ladies to introduce the work for us in every township, and we will pay liberally. No intelligent man or woman need be without a paying business. Send for circular, full description, and terms. Address ZIEGLER A MoOURDY, 16 S. Sixth street. Philadelphia Pa. 139 Race street, Cincinnati, Ohio, 6!) Monroe street, Chicago, 111., 503 N. Sixth street, St Louis, Mo. seplO-m or, 702 Main street, Springfield, Mass. ‘"‘ THE MONROE ADVERTISER.” VOLUME FIFTEEN. A First-Class Democratic Newspaper! r |MIE Oamptiiffn which will soon be inau 1 "urated, and whUh will culminate in the election of Congiessional and Legislative Representatives in November, promises to be one of the most important and interesting epochs in the history of the State. In view of this fact, it is the duty of every pprson te sub scribe for some available newspaper. To the people of this section, Tuk Monro* Advertiser presents superior cl HI I11S« • No pains will be spared to render the The Advertiser a reliable and efficient newspaper, and each issue will embrace a fair epitome of the week’s news, both foreign ""as'heretofore, the local news of this and the adjoining counties will be made a specialty. The Advertiser is published in a very populous and wealthy section, and is one of the most available advertising mediums in Middle Georgia. To the merchants of Macon and Atlanta, it offers superior inducemente for large, intelligent and prosperous class of people, leans „f Overturns septl7-tf B° x 79. Forsyth. Ga. TWO GOOD BOOKS- Should be Had in every Family. DEVOTIONAL and Practical Polvfflott FAMILY BIBLE, G^oiap?- SrS'EorSTnSf;. *»'<«“ By Iheophilus 1 arsons, profession, mortgages, forms f"*; me (l of l eV ,t’Z.„„ bond articles of copartner ’wS, .«rS *c PdblwheSby the N.ttoe.l Pub (b» .ovM-tl THOMASTON, GA., SAT UR DAT MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1871. jpOJETfjY, A Novel to be Head lit Five Minutes. VOL. L Moonlight evening—shady grove— Two young people much in love, Heroine with great wealth endowed. Hero handsome, poor, and proud ; Truth eternal—hearts united Vows of changeless passion plighted ; Kisses-quarrels - sighs-caresses, Maiden yields one of her tresses. Obstacles to be surmounted, Ugly rival, old ,nd stale, Overhears the tender tale. vol. n. Morning in the east looks ruddy ; Scene—young lady’s father’s study, Hero, wiib his hat in hand, Comes her ditto to demand ; Angry parent storms, abuses, And at once her hand refuses. Maiden faints beneath the blow Mother intercedes—no go; Shrieks—hysterics— protestations, Mixed with old man’s execrations, Exit lover midst the din— Ugly rival enters in. vol. m. Time a moonlight night once more, Scene outside the lady's door, Lover, with half broken heart. Swears Led rather die than part. Garden—flower, umbrageous shade— Many accents—serenade— Chamber window opens wide— Debut of expectant bride ; Little dog most kindly mute Tears-rope ladder-flight—pursuit— Gallant steeds - too late—night’s screen— Triumph - marriage—Gretna Green, Old man’s rage—disowns forever— Ugly rival—scarlet fever. VOL. IV. Old man sickly—sends for child; All forgiveness—reconciled ; Young man making money Gst— Old man’s blessing—dies at last. Youthful couple prove probate— Get the money—live in state— Mother’s wishes crowned with joy— Doctors—nurses—little boy. Time proceeds—her ties endear— Olive branches year by year. Blessings on the good attend— General gladness—moral end. Smiles. A little girl wanted to tay she had a fan, but had forgotten what if was called ; so she described it as a “thing to brush the warm all off you with.” “Will you dake sumding?” said a Ger man teetotaler to a friend while standing near a tavern. “I don't o.are if T do!” was the reply. “Veil, den, let’s take a valk." Here’s the way a Vermont Dutchman acknowledged the return of a lost pocket*- hook containing $600: “Bob, vou is one honest man ; I tells you what I’ll do—l’ll shake you for de lager.” “Well, Mrs. Smith.” said Mrs. Jones, “if I’m anything. I’m a Unitarian ; what reli gion are you?” “I ain’t quite sartin what they calls it, but my old man says he’s a vegetarian.” A man carrying a eraddle was stopped by an old woman, and thus accosted; ‘‘So. sir, you have got some of the fruits of matrimo ny.” “Softly, old lady,” said he; you mistake: this is merely the fruit basket.” “Adversity,” savs a Western preacher, “takes us up short and sets us down hard, and when it’s done with us we feel as'con tented as a boy that’s been spanked and set away to cool.” A gentleman having a pony that started and broke his wife’s neck, a neighbor told him that he wished to purchase it for his wife to ride upon. “No,” says the other I will not sell the little fellow because I in tend to marry again. “Miss will you tako my arm,” asked an old bachelor. “La ! yes. and you too,” said the young lady. “Can only spare the arm, Miss,” h astilv replied the bachelor. “Then,” said Miss, “I can’t take it, as my motto is to go the whole hog, or none at all.” A young lady explaining to her lover the destinction between printing and pub ish ing, and at the conclusion of her remarks by way of illustration she said : ‘You may print a kiss on my cheek, but you must not publish it.’ “My dear,” said a' sentimental wife, “home, you know, is the dearest spot ou earth.” “Well, yes,” said the practical husband, “it does cost me about twice as much as any other spot.” Ticket Collector —“This ynnr boy. mum ? He’s too big for a ’alf ticket ’’’—Mother— •Oh! is he? Well, perhaps he is now, mister ; but he wasn’t when we started. This ’xcursion’s ever so many hours be’ind time, an’ he’s a growing lad ! A youth was lamenting to bis father the ordeal of popping the question. “Pooh !” said the patriarch, “how do you suppose I managed ?” “You needn’t talk,” respond ed the young hopeful ; “you married moth er, and I’ve got to marry a strange girl.” Solemn Hours. —An old bachelor says, of all the solemn hours he ever saw, that occupied in going home one dark night from the Widow Beane, after being told by her daughter Sally that he “needu’t come agaTn,” was the most solemn. A young ladv with a very pretty foot, but a rather large ankle, went into a* shoe store to be measured. The admiring clerk, who is of Gallic extraction, complimented her in the following queer way : “Madam you have one bootiful toot, hut ze leg com mence too immediately.” A man marries his third step mother, who has three living children by bis father. ID thus becomes step father to his own step brothers, tn.ee of his step-brothers marry three of his wife’s sisters. In ten years, who’ll be kin to whom; and what kin ? If so, hotfso, why so, and how mucti qo ? ’ Won’t they all go to a lunatic asylum before they ficu're it out ? Won’t the.r w.l » be gay old muddles for the lawyers, a halt century hence ? Married in Church. G;rls have an intense desire to be married in church, so that all can admire their good clothes and see the poof victim who has I ccn captured by a false braid of hair, a Japanese switch, or a curl cut from the head of some French peasant girl, or the p ump pads of a fashionable milliner, which have made a firm that resembles a llcr.e in its fair proportions. Just now it is all the mge for marriages to take place in church, and the real stvle is to keep the au :ien:e ia suspense as 1 aig as possible. Here is un acc"uut of a late wedding ; 1 he bride entered alone, aod kept \ e.fei t time with her march, somewhat in the sutge style, until ehe reached the altar. Her hea l was drooped, her hands crossed upon D’*' jeweled breast, with a lace handker clr '/ in one and a in the other. She appeared to the unconscious of every surrounding, and probably vru d . Young ladies always are at such moments. After standing before the altar what teemed to be five minutes or five hours, yt u could not tell which, so very much absorbed was everybody in the singular manner of her entering ; and in laying aw r ay in memory an inventory ot her bridal array, sot the pleasure of young ladies who had uot been bidden to this extraordinary ceremony. By-and-by, another young who was unveiled, entered, qpd kept up a'sfmi lar tread toward the Then another, and then another, to the number of twelve. Just as the second walking lady entered, the bride knelt in sole.up attitude, and without doubt she prayed for something or other, though she did. not look as if she had a worldly wish ungra'itied, and certainly she was uut preparing at that moment for any other world than this. Number two knelt presently, and then three, aocT four, until all the thirteen were in the most picturesque attitudes known to devotioD, and O, how their trains did spread I By-the-by the organ concluded that.they had kuelt long enough to give full express ion to the 1 engtb of their dresses and the way their back hair was arranged, and all other intents they had, and it changed its key and played something else which was more hopeful and agreeable, and during jhe letting up of die waii au elderly man came in with a young one, and both were in white kids, white vests, and hammer tails cut out of black broadcloth. The younger man was leaning upon the elder most confidingly, and when they had reach ed the altar, the clergyman, who seemed to be in collusion with them, came forJi by a side door and faced them. The old gentle man gently touched the veiled head of tire bride, as much as to say, “My dear daugh ter, don’t pray any more. I’ve fetched you a right nice husband ;” and she looked up, smiled in the sweetest and most pearly manner, as if she should say, “Tnank you, father, for supplying all my earthly wants •” then she rose, and the clergyman played audibly, while the organ kept on its sweet symphony, an 1 the usual ceremony of exacting promises was proceeded with, and the father gave her away and immedi ately retired behind his handkerchief, and into a front pew, as if be were sorry he did it The questioning and promises appear ed to be satisfactory to the officiiting gentleman, and he let them off into the matrimonial w r orld as closely tied as ropes of sand could do it, and in utter disregard to the state of the mercury. They went out of the damp and heavy-laden atmos phere of the church, looking as happy as two turtle doves, while the bridesmaids followed, two by two, as much as to declare that they desired the companionship of women only, and that they could not be induced to do so silly a thing as wed a man. A long breath, even of these commingled airs, seemed to relieve the audience, and they rose and went forth wiser, if not Fad der, for the solemnization of the rice of wedlock. Wl»a.t it Ought to JDo. J. B. Merwin says very truly in the Journal of Education that a good common school education ought to make one able to talk and to write good English, to keep simple accounts and make the calculations of every day business do write a decent hand, and to write a common business let ter respectably. This is what “a good common education” should do. But how many, in point ot fact, can do these few things well, or even fairly? How many can read a paragraph from the newspaper in such a way as to be pleasing to the hearers, and at the same time he thoroughly understood by them ? How many can write a page of foolscap that would escape the c tntempt and the derision of a printer’s apprentice, one year “at the case,” for .its vile spelling, its wretched capitalizing, the fearful muddle of sense in its sentences, and its wonderful punctuation. How many can keep a simple debit and credit for the week’s business in a small shoo? How many can foot a ’ ledger column, and have it right? The answer to all these questions must be that very few can do wvll these things of every day occurrence and of the greatest value and importance. Finally, then, how are we ever going to get a really good com mon education given in our schools and how long first ? Who of our teachers, or which cf our schools, will lead off in this matter of a practical education ? - Lost Races. A writer in the Missouri Republican, discussing the question suggested by the “relics ot a lost race,” arrives at the follow ing conclusions regarding the pre-historio occupant of the Mississippi Valley : 1. The primitive tribes of America were not exotic but indigenous. 2 The race known as mound builders were Ted Indians, in every essential particular similar to th se inhab iting the Territories. 3. Os the ten thous and mounds in the Western, Middle, and Southern States, less than five hundred are the product of human agency. 4. The highest point of art development attained bv the mound*builders only exceed the use us stone implements by a very limited manipulation of native coppei ; and apart from their extreme advancement, is marked by eartb works, unglazed pottery, and the simplest aboriginal soil tillage. 5. They had no system of worship or any ideas of theology more elevated than such as are entertained by the hunter tribes of the present day. An ElitqiKnt Legislator. The following h a verbatim report of an “obituary speech” made }ears ago in the Texas Legislature. Toe orator, in lament ing the death of Colonel Ytdl, a colleague, proceeds : —“Mr. Speaker, it becomes iny du:y to announce that And ew Jackson Yell, member of this bo ly, is no more. He has fell a victim to the grim and destroying tyrant. Death, who yesterday put and en 1 to his mortal career; and lie now lies life less at the pleasant boarding-house of Mrs. Jones, on the bill, where he and many other members of this yere H >use have long re ceive 1 every cure and attention from that inestimable lady. His room being now vacant and available for some other boarder terrupted by a member, who rose to “a p’ii.t of . to know if it was in order for “any member of this yere House, in his speech unto the memory of a departed member, to ring in a b ardiu’- bouse kep’ by bis aunt and furn shed by himself?” The Speaker deciding that the point was not well taken, the eulogist con tinued—“Ah ! this is to > solium a occasion, Mr. Speaker tor mo to notice arty sieh im perdence arid side remarks as that air. I thought s nr.e infamous hyena would be out here to day. howlm’ round the grave of our departed friend, foaiuin’ at the mouth, gnashing his toothless jaws, and droolin’ out. his inneffeetual and anpertant rage. With his hide all kivered with welts, all sore and disgustin’ from the lash and hot poker of terrew th, he rolls over and over, and bites and tear- and soils himself, till he is justly offensive to this II u-e. But to resoorn my melancholy suhjeck. Toe de ceased,- Mr. Speaker intrenched in the glo ri us armor of patriotism, with his band on k this yere record of hia’n culd lo tk the Auierikin eagle proudly in they eye, and defy chain iightnin’ iu any shape, or from any qXtartea it might come ; but at last, when prostrated and emancipated, hd died on his prostrated bed at the pleasant board in’-house of Mrs. Jones, on the hill.” And so on. It is but just to say that such har angues are not fair samples of Western legislative eloquence ; but they do occur, aud this is repeated without exageratiou. ' Sale of Patent Medicines. Some statistics of particular medicines gnd preparations, kxown as proprietary, may lie interesting as indicating their com parative importance and popularity. Tar rant’s Seltzer Aperient is sold annually to the extent of SIOO,OOO, and Jayne’s Altera tive upwards of $50,000. ll.tll’s Balsam SIO,OOO. and Drakp’s Plantation Bitters $600,000. Ilostetter’s Bitters are popular to the extent of SBOO,O 10 and Hoofland’s to SIOO,OOO. Os Helmbold’s Buchu, annually, $500,000 worth. Os McLean’s Cordial arid Ayer’s Ague Cure are sold SIOO,OOO each. Osgood’s Chologogue brings $100,000; Burnett’s to«»wnau© uu.nl.. JT 0() „ n rt Kennedy's Discovery a similar sum. Bou dault’s Pepsine Elixir finds a patronage of $500,000, and Javne’s Expectorant of SIOO,- 000. It will doubtless be surprising to many to hear that an article so apparently unim portant as a fly-paper sells to the extent of $50,000. This is the annual receipt from Dutcher’s Lightning fly-paper, manufac tured in St. Albans. Vt Brown’s Prepa ration of Ginger, $260,000. and Hall’s Siciilian Hair Renewer, $400,000 annually. Another prepartition, Sanford’s Invigorator, sloo,< o*, of Trask’s Ointment, $50,000. In the pill department. $200,000 of Ayer’s ate sold, $150,000 of Bennett’s P. anil K , SIOO,OOO ot Herrick’s, SIOO,OOO of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills, $200,000 of Rad way’s and $15,000 of Wright’s. Ayer’s Cherry Pec toral has a trade of $150,000, and Davis’s Painkiller of $150,000. Os t ie syrups, “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Svrup” stands first; it’s annual sale readies $500,000. Smith’s Tonic is nexb $200,000. Os Schenck’s Plumonic, SIOO,OOO worth is s dd, and $50,00 1 worth is sold of the Peru vian Syrup and Scovill’s Stillingia Blood Syrup. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla stands first $150,i 00 Townsend’s and Bull’s follow with SIOO,OOO each : Sozodont is purchased to the extent ot SDK).OOO. Brown’s Bron chial Troches, $25 i.OOO. MeLme’s Ver mifuge return $50,000, Constitutional Water and Isaac Thompson’s Troy Water $50,0 U each. — World A Word to Country \eivftpapt rs. The Cleveland Herald makes the follow ing truthful observation concerning country papers and the duty of giving wholesome support; The local paper is an ab-olute necessity to the country and community where it is published. Atll the city papers cannot supply the place of the home paper. That should be the first love of everv man and woman, for with the paper is the locality identified. The paper gives the country and town where printed much of their im portance in the world, and gives in detail the local news, which cannot be gained by any other source. Every day’s issue of the paper is so much local history, and the rise, growth and development .of the town and county can be measured and recorded only by the local newspaper that constantly is gat bet ing its items. People do not propyrly appreciate their home newspaper. They measure the value of a paper too much by tbe number of columns it contains. The home p iper at any price is the cheapest paper one can take, for in it is f *u-nd the information to be obtained from no other source. Another thing to be taken into consider ation. Every county has ono or more newspapers. Hence, circulation of eacb paper must be limited. There is therefore the greatest need us activity and interest on the part of the people to give their own good paper, vigorous, and substantial support. In, Into a ltd Under/ The vexed que-tioa of the proper mode of baptism was thus disposed ot by “Uncle Cte-ar,” a colored preacher out West: “Now, bredren,’’ said he, “I hear great fuss abuu dese words in and into; and bdks want us to believe dat they mean un der, and dat when de Scriptur' speake of an individual going d<*wn into the water, de Bible mean to say that he went under the water S’pose some day Igo ovur to see brudder Salomon, and. brudder Solomon werry politely say, “Uncle Caesar, come into de hou-e, do anybody s'poee dis here nigger would jo under dc koine. A yVmalf A curious claim" wasedecided ad versely by the Military Committee of the House of Representative* a few days ago. M iss A. E. Carrol), of Haiti more, who claims to he a descendant of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, one of the signers of the Dec laration of Independence, petitioned Con gress to pay her for extraordinary services rendered during the war. She states that in November, 1861, whFe the Mississippi River Expedition was preparing, she wrote and submitted to Thomas A. Scott, thou Assistant Secretary of War. a piper show ing that the true way to attack the “rebel lion" in the West was. not by the Missis sippi river, but bv the Tennessee river ; that her plan was adopted, and that the Teno* s see river campaign, the capture of Fort DimeUon, arid til th« Ki|hSM|ae?itmovofuewt s and successes in that section were the direct result*. She produced a copy of the original paper referred to. which shows much sagac ity and strategic knowledge, but is little more than a general argument in favor of an advaneo up the Tennessee. The com mittee did not think they would be warrant ed in proposing an appropriation for Miss Carroll's benefit, although they thought? thf.it in the future, when women’s rights are fully acknowledged, her military talents may be acknowledged by a Major General's com mission. Intricacies of the English Language. The construction of the English langu age must appear most formidable to a foreigner. oie of them looking at a pic ture of a number of vessels, said : “See what a flock of ships I" lie was told that a flock of ships was ealled a fleet, and that a fleet of sheep was called a flock. Ami it was added for his guidance in mas tering the intricacies of our language, that a “flock of girls is called a bevy, that a bevy of wolves is ealled a pack, and a pack of thieves is called a gang, and a gang of angels is called host, and a hose of porpoises is called a shoal, and a shoal of buff does is called a herd, and a herd of children is called a covey, and a covey of beauty is called a g tllaxy, and a galjaxy of ruffians is culled a horde, and a horde of rubbish is called a heap, and a heap of oxen is called a drove, and a drove of blackguards is called a mob, and a mob of whales is called a school, and a school of worshipers is called a congregation, and a congregation of en~ gineero is called a corps, and a.corps of robbers is called a band, and a band of locusts is called a swarm, and a swarm of people is called a crowd." Queer Purties. A M inneeota paper says: “Duluth in troduced sheet and pillow-ease parties last week at the residence of George 0. Stone. The uniform for ladies consisted of a pair of white stockings drawn over their shoes, a ni ah t~/»•»/*« il.*l« .1- •■ , .* unite sheet thrown over their shoulders shawl fashion, white gloves on their hands, a white handkerchief tied toothache fashion, around their heads, a pink cambric mask over the face, and a pillow-case tie<L over their heads in the same manner in which house-wives tie handkerchiefs over their top-pieces while sweeping a dusty room. The costume of gentlemen was similar to the above, with the exception of white shirts instead of night-gowns, and the addi tional, in some instances of pantlets drawn over their pantaloons.” How Bunks Make Muncy. A considerable source of profit to banks is the wearing out, destruction, or loss by the holders of hills issued us currency. This is shown by the fact that of the circu lation of the banks doing business seven years ago under the banking law of this State, and which, since the law was passed by Congress taxing it, has been as far as possible called in, $2 25'0,00t) is yet out standing. Some part of this amount may possibly be hoarded by ignorant persons in old stockings and money chests, but the presumption is that the greater portion of it is beyond the possibility of presentation for redemption, and that accordingly the banks, which receive value for it, will be relieved from meeting their obligations to take it up. A Society Item. The New York Mail thus reveals the or der of the society week : “Monday is the grand evening for infernal calls and small companies. Tuesday evening is appropri ated for dintier parties. Wednesday is the day of days for wedd ngs and wedding re ceptions. Thursday for afternoon recep tions and evening parties. Friday we go to the Philharmonic rehearsalsin the afternoon, irf the evening to our s jciables. Saturday afternoon we walk Fifth Avenue, and Sat urday evening we go to Wallack’a. An Enterprising Company. At the annual election of the Western Union Telegraph Company, wich owns or controls nine-tenths of the telegraph-sys tem on this continent, the President stated that the oompanv now owns 54,100 miles of lines, and 112.101 miles of wire, connecting 3,500 stations, and employs nearly 7,000 persons. The gross receipts for the year were $7 138,728, and the gross expenses $4,010,772. There were 22 per cent, more messages transmitted than in the previous year. * Chinese Idtuv. When the Chinese want to describe a per son who pretends to be very brave, and makes a great parade in order to show his courage, they say that “he is cutting off a hen’s head with a battle-axe." A cuward, who boasts of his courage, they call “a paper tiger.” They compare a person who pretends to be what he is not, to a fox who tries to look as noble and strong as a tiger. If a pprson is ign rant of books, they will sav, “Turn him upside down, but not a drop of iok will come out of him.” A Ktlic of Daniel Boone. At a meeting of the Missouri Historical Society last week, the following was re ceived in a letter from Mr. Horace Fox. It was said to be a scrap written by Daniel Boone: “I certify that I gave permission to Ben jamin Gardner to satel on a pies of vacant land cold Little Purrary, on the Missury, some time in December, 1 <? 02. Given under my hand this 23d Day of Febury. 1806. Daniel Boose.” NO. 10,